USPTO Patents Application 10812286

Mar 26 04 02:47p Herman Uong

+1 (519) 725-5345

Docket No. 03-2545

1496.00369

DECLARATION & POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned inventors, hereby declare that:

My residence, post office address and citizenship are given next to my name;

We believe that we are the first, original and joint inventors of the subject matter claimed in the
application for patent entitled "EMBEDDED PICTURE PSNR/CRC DATAIN COMPRESSED
VIDEO BITSTREAM", which:

X is submitted herewith;

was filed on as Application Serial No. and amended on ;

We have reviewed and understand the contents of the above-identified application for patent
(hereinafter, "this application"), including the claims, as amended by any amendment specifically
referred to in the oath or declaration;

We acknowledge the duty under Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations, Section 1 .56, to disclose to
. the United States Patent and Trademark Office information known to be material to the patentability
' of this application. We also acknowledge that information is material to patentability when it is not

cumulative to information already provided to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and

when it either

compels, by itself or in combination with other information, a conclusion that a claim
is unpatentable under the preponderance of evidence standard, giving each term in
the claim its broadest reasonable construction consistent with the application, and
before any consideration is given to evidence which may be submitted to establish
a contrary conclusion of patentability, or

refutes or is inconsistent with a position taken in either (i) asserting an argument of
patentability, or (ii) opposing an argument of unpatentability relied on by the United
States Patent and Trademark Office;

We hereby claim the priority benefit under Title 35, Section 1 19(e), of the following United States
provisional patent applications:

A pplication No. Filing Date

We hereby claim the priority benefit under Title 35, Section 120, of the following United States
patent applications:

Serial No, Filing Date / Status

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We hereby claim foreign priority benefits under 35 U.S.C. 119(a)-(d) or 365(b) of any foreign
application(s) for patent or inventor's certificate, or 365(a) of any PCT international application
which designated at least one country other than the United States of America, listed below and have
also identified below any foreign application for patent or inventor's certificate, or any PCT
international application having a filing date before that of the application on which priority is
claimed.

A pplication No. Country Filinp Date

Where the subject matter of the claims of this application is not disclosed in the United States or
PCT priority patent applications identified above, we acknowledge the duty to disclose information
known to be material to the patentability of this application that became available between the filing
dates of this application and of the priority United States or PCT patent applications.

We hereby appoint as our attorneys with full power of substitution to prosecute this application and
conduct all business in the United States Patent and Trademark Office associated with this
application: Customer No. 243 19. >

24319

PATENT TRADEMARK OFFICE

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We declare that all statements made herein of our own knowledge are true and that all statements
made on information and belief are believed to be true; and further that these statements were made
with the knowledge that willful false statements and the like so made are punishable by fine or
imprisonment, or both, under Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code and that such
willful false statements may jeopardize the validity of this application or any patent issuing thereon.

Pavel Novotny ;

Name of First Joint Inventor

Citizen of: Czech Republic '

Residence: 1 86 Pineland Ct,

Waterloo. Ontario N2T 2T1

Canada

Post Office Address:

186 Pineland Ct.

Waterloo. Ontario N2T 2T1
Canada

Signature of First J^int Inventor
Date

ADDITIONAL INVENTORS ARE BEING NAMED ON AN ADDITIONAL PAGE
ATTACHED HERETO.

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Guy Cote

Nam? of Second Joint Inventor

2

'AIM.

Si^a^^ofSecond Joint Inventor
Date

Post Office Address:

167 Chalmers St.. Box 705

Elora. Ontario NOB ISO

Canada

Citizen of:.
Residence:

Canada

167 Chalmers St.. Box 705
Elora. Ontario NOB ISO

Canada

Lowell L. Winger

Name of Third Joint Inventor

Signature of Third Joint Invent*
Date

Post Office Address:

462 Sandbanks Cr.

Waterloo, Ontario N2V 2J2

Canada

Citizen of:.
Residence:

Canada

462 Sandbanks Cr,

Waterloo. Ontario N2V 2J2

Canada